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Tawnos' Esper Playhouse

Commander / EDH Artifact Bracket 4 Combo Jank Sacrifice Tokens WUB (Esper)

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Artifact (28)

Instant (5)

Land (37)

Sorcery (7)

Enchantment (3)

Commander (1)

Commander: Tawnos, Solemn Survivor

Creature (17)

Planeswalker (2)

Hey! This is an esper valuepile deck with Tawnos, Solemn Survivor at the helm. The goal is to make a token copy of a powerful artifact with cards like Three Steps Ahead, Esoteric Duplicator, and Echo Storm. With Tawnos able to copy these copies on the cheap and use these copies to get more copies of other powerful artifacts, the deck scales up fast. Tutors and the deck's selfmill/card draw suite find big haymakers like Cyberdrive Awakener and Darksteel Forge, or direct-to-board tutors to win with Kuldotha Forgemaster/Transmutation Font finding Encroaching Mycosynth into Mycosynth Lattice and Karn, the Great Creator (Encroaching Mycosynth makes all permanents tutorable). This two-card combo prevents opponents from casting spells.

Additionally, the deck can close out games with one of the most asinine tutor chains known to man:

Kuldotha Forgemaster into Encroaching Mycosynth on an opponent's endstep, allowing all permanents to be sacrificed or tutored with Forgemaster's ability. Untap, upkeep, draw, use Forgemaster to find Freed from the Real, enchanting Forgemaster and allowing it to untap -> Optional Mycosynth Lattice into optional Karn (four mana version), to stop countermagic if an opponent was holding it up -> Thassa's Oracle -> Leveler in response to the Thoracle trigger. The stack resolves, your library is exiled, and you win the game.

While this chain feels a little like Five Card Combo Magical Christmasland, it's very consistent due to the mutability of the tutor chain. Opponents cannot respond once they see Karn on the field, meaning that once they know that you were tutoring a lock it's too late, and the rest of your combo is protected; if you are lacking blue mana, you can find Urza, Lord High Artificer or Chromatic Orrery; If your combo protection needs protection, you can tutor up Darksteel Forge; you will almost never lack artifacts to sacrifice, as Lattice makes your lands artifacts; if you are still concerned about lack of artifacts, you can find token generation; Tawnos provides redundancy for the combo; the combo can be accelerated with a haste enabler or certain cards being in your hand or graveyard; if Thoracle or Leveler is out of the deck and cannot be recovered with Tawnos, you can still win off of Karnlock with Darksteel Forge protection; and if you're worried about free interaction dodging Karnlock, you can take out Haunt the Network for Grand Abolisher and add it to the tutor chain.

As I said, it's incredibly asinine.

Tawnos doubles artifact value, payoffs and enablers allow huge, swingy turns, and the deck can threaten lethal combo kills from nowhere. It's a great time.

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